[linux-dvb] mt20xx.c code bugs!

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Qui, 2007-11-15 às 09:43 +0800, kevin liu escreveu:
> Dear everyone:
>     I am reading v4l2 tuner part code these days, when I come to mt20xx.c,
> in microtune_init(), the use of the char pointer name maybe cause some
> fatal error sometimes for this state:
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 507     name = "unknown";
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>     while pointer name doesn't have its memory.
>     And I wonder why gcc can't give any warnings?

Because this works properly and it has a valid syntax/semantic.

Any C compiler will add "unknown" string to the data segment and 'name'
will point to this area.
 
Cheers,
Mauro